This article explains how to change your settings after you have done this for the first time. It explains how to change your name, email, password, and language settings.

All these changes can be made on your profile. Get there by clicking on the icon at the top right of the tool.

Under ‘First name’ you can change your first name and under ‘Last name’ you can change your last name. Below that, you see ‘E-mail’, where you can change your e-mail address.

If you have a 5miles account through your employer, it is often only possible to log in with your business email address. If you would like to change your e-mail address to your personal e-mail address, please send a message to info@5miles.nl.

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Then, you can change your password, which is possible at any time. If you want to change your password, you can enter a password of your choice at ‘New password’. Then you must repeat this password at ‘Confirm password’. In the field ‘Current password’, you need to enter your old password for verification. Finally, click on Change my password’ to save your new password.

Have you forgotten your password? Go to this page, enter your e-mail address and you will receive an e-mail with instructions on how to reset your password.

In your Mail preferences you can change various settings for receiving e-mails. You can change these at any time.

An e-mail is sent out once in a while about news within 5miles or when new training courses and functionalities are launched. This might be an email about a new Power BI track or that you can download certificates of your completed tracks. This keeps you up to date with the latest training and functionalities to further improve your skills. These emails are not sent very often (once per month at most). If you would rather not receive this news, then uncheck this option under 'Promotional emails'. You can change this at any time.

Challenge emails are emails you receive to remind you that a new personal challenge is ready for you in the 5miles learning tool. You can choose to turn these reminders off by clicking on the slider under 'Challenge emails'. However, we do not recommend this because it increases the chance that you forget to complete the challenges. If you find the frequency of the emails too high, you can also choose to adjust the days and times. You can read more about this in this article.

If you have deactivated the challenge emails, it is still possible to complete challenges. You can log into 5miles at any time and start challenges from your Dashboard.
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You can also adjust the challenge schedule in your Mail preferences. This is about adjusting how often you receive an email with a personal challenge.

The default setting for the challenge e-mails is 08:00 every week. If you find the frequency of the emails too high, you can also choose to adjust the days and times.

The 5miles learning method focuseson learning 5 minutes every day. The default setting for the challenge emails is therefore 08:00 every working day. Don't you have time to learn 5 minutes every day? Then you can easily change your preferences for day and time here.

By ticking a day, you indicate that you want to receive an email with a new challenge on that day. If you uncheck a day, you indicate that you do not want to receive an email with a new challenge on that day.

When you have selected a day, you can enter a time when you want to receive the email with your personal challenge on that day. Would you like to receive the reminder of your challenge just after lunch or at the end of the working day? It’s all possible! In the example above you can see that the challenge emails are sent on Monday at 08:00 and on Tuesday at 17:00. Then click on 'Save' to save your settings.

You can adjust the time zone of your mail preferences below. If you are temporarily on holiday and would like to do challenges or if you work abroad, you can set the correct time zone here.

No challenge emails are sent during public holidays. Here you can indicate on which national holidays you do not wish to receive daily challenge emails.

In your Mail preferences you can also set an intermission period for receiving challenges. Are you on holiday or busy with a project deadline? Then set a break period during which you will temporarily not receive challenge emails.

You can change this by filling in two dates behind ‘Don’t send me challenges from’. The first date you fill in is the first day of your intermission period on which you will not receive a challenge e-mail. The second date is the last day on which you will not receive a challenge e-mail. After the second date, the intermission period is over and you will receive the challenges according to your challenge schedule again.

For example, you are going on holiday from 15 July to 30 July 2022. You then select those two dates in the boxes. On 31 July 2022 you will receive another challenge email. This means that after the intermission period, you will automatically receive challenge emails again on the days and at the times you have set.

Do you decide that you still want to make a challenge during a break period? Just log into 5miles and start a challenge from the Dashboard. This does not interrupt your intermission period.

You can change two different settings in the Language preferences: Communication and User interface language and Content language.

Under ‘Communication & User interface language’ you can choose the language in which you receive messages and the language that you will see in the tool. At this moment, you can choose from English, Dutch and German.

Here you can choose the language of the challenges: English or Dutch. It could be, for example, that the settings of your computer or Office are in English. It might be easier then to set the language of your challenges to English as well. In this way, the names of the functions in the challenges will be similar to the ones in your Office-program.